Robots addicts, enthusiasts, hobbyists, educators or students now have a good news, in a way that Microsoft has released Windows-based, robotic-platform-agnostic Microsoft Robotics Studio (MRS) CTP (community technical preview) November 2006 for free download. Microsoft Robotics Studio offers visual, services-based platform for programming robots or create robotics applications in the real and virtual world, and intends to be software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, is applicable to a wide audience of user and can be used for development of a wide variety of applications. Commercial or business developers that intend to use the MRS for commercial purposes or use the programming tool to control and drive robot have to license the runtime for $399 per seat.

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Microsoft has released XNA Game Studio Express and the XNA Framework out of beta as version 1.0, a games development tool designed to let game developers, designers and hobbyists to easily create and develop video games for Windows and Xbox 360 gaming platform using new and optimized XNA Framework, a set of managed code development cross-platform gaming libraries based on Visual C# Express 2005. XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 is available for free.

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XML Notepad 2007 is a free application from Microsoft that provides a more user friendly and intuitive user interface (GUI) for reading, browsing, editing, modifying or manipulating XML source files by developers or users. XML Notepad 2007 supports Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems and requires Microsoft .NET Frameworks v2.0.

Among the features of XML Notepad 2007 are:

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On most websites, publishers may prefer to open the links to other web pages, especially external links that open web pages out of their own sites, in a new web browser window or tab, as most of the time, clicking on a link will load the new document from the link in the same window with where the link was. In HTML web programming language, to launch the new document (web pages) from links in a new window or tab effect is typically done through the use of target attributes on those links.

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Microsoft Expression Web which previously known as Microsoft Expression Web Designer (still been identified as Expression Web Designer in the beta) and coded-name “Quartz” is a professional web design tool that is in direct competition with Macromedia (Adobe) Dreamweaver and other web development HTML editors. Microsoft Expression Web will also replace Microsoft FrontPage, which is part of Microsoft Office System and has largely been reincarnated as Microsoft SharePoint Designer. Microsoft Expression Web is part of Expression family lineup, which also includes graphical design tool Expression Graphic and application interface designer Expression Interactive Designer.

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XNA Game Studio Express is a game development software that allows students, independent game developers and hobbyists to easily create and develop video games using new and optimized cross-platform gaming libraries for Windows PC and Xbox 360 console. XNA Game Studio Express consists of XNA Framework which is a set of managed code development libraries that make it more productive for developers to create games for Windows and the Xbox 360, XNA Framework Content Pipeline which allows developers to more easily incorporate 3D content into their games. Also include full set of documentation, how-tos, and starter kits that demonstrate how best to use the content pipeline and XNA Framework.

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Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 6) which code-named “Mustang” is the new name and future version for what previously known as J2SE. The new release will be identified as product version 6, and developer version 1.6.0. Java SE 6 has two products delivered under the name of the platform, that’s Java SE Development Kit 6 (JDK 6) and Java SE Runtime Environment 6 (JRE 6). Java SE 6 is currently in Beta 2 and is scheduled to be officially released later this year. Java SE 6 has greater level of maturity, stability, scalability and security of Java implementation.

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Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail, which similar to Atlas for ASP.NET, Yahoo!’s User Interface Library and Adobe Spry. Google Web Toolkit allows programmers to write the front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler will converts the Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

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